A couple months ago, I posted a function that allows a user to alter views with dependencies. I recently discovered another quick way to do it and thought I would share it with the community. 1) Cretae a new view 2) Modify the dependent views to utilize the new view 3) drop the old view 4) rename the new view with the same name as the old view using alter table viewname rename to newname The views that referenced the newname automatically switch their reference to the new name. This is better for people who are uncomfortable with a function that first drops the dependency list and then rebuilds them one at a time. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly